Global warming hasn't gone away

Where's all the concern about global warming? This is one of the greatest problems facing us as a society, let alone our children, grandchildren and future generations. The literature and news is replete with the future impacts: mass extinction, flooding of low-lying areas with rising sea levels and more drought and extreme weather, to name a few.

All the media can do is overanalyze stories such as the Jerry Sandusky scandal (tragic indeed, but front-page news nearly day after day?), the European debt crisis and the Arab Spring. Meanwhile, carbon continues to be dumped into the atmosphere at record levels.

And global warming deserves no more than an opinion piece hidden somewhere in the back of the newspaper? The time to act is now. What we need is nothing short of a social revolution if we are to truly succeed.